Remaining Schedule

[Chris McLaughlin]

If I read it all right, the Bahamas is not a CUSA bowl this year, so that means the baseball stadium in Miami or St. Pete, whichever.

I think we are secondary in the Bahamas Bowl. AAC gets first shot.

From what I could tell this year CUSA has the following bowl tie-ins:

– Boca Raton Bowl vs. American Athletic
– Gildan New Mexico Bowl vs. Mountain West
– Hawai’i Bowl vs. Mountain West
– R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl vs. Sun Belt
– Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl vs. Big Ten
– NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl vs. Mountain West

&
– Camping World Independence Bowl
Conditional if ACC or SEC can’t fill a spot.

 

[The Real SamC]

Such little confidence off 1 bad game.

It just depends on how you view that game. People have been playing the "looking ahead" card, the "unprepared" card, and "few adjustments" card. All of this "play harder" rah rah, on one side and "blame to coach" on the other.

What I saw saturday was more simple. Our players were just out-skilled. Not out-played, not out-worked (although they did quit early in the 3rd), not under-coached, not running into some hyped up MACer playing "their Super Bowl" or Baby Bowden auditioning for the soon to be open USPAM job. What I saw was just the best team winning. And Akron is not a very good team.

 

[bgr28]

It's obvious you haven't watched much football this year.

Please explain why

 

[beefcake0520]

Assuming that 6-6 = bowl, which is a safe assumption, then this team needs to find 5 wins. That means we cannot drop a game we should win (North Texas, FAU, UNCC, and FIU) and then we need one more win. This team is not capable of winning the next two weeks, nor of beating USM, MTSU, or WKU. That means the bowl important game is at ODU on November 5 and then not blow it at FIU, which is very possible considering.

If I read it all right, the Bahamas is not a CUSA bowl this year, so that means the baseball stadium in Miami or St. Pete, whichever.

Well, just me being honest, and we do agree a lot, I will hold reservation for whom I expect losses to. Honestly, Miami gave WKU all they could handle, MTSU struggled vs and very down BG squad for much of the game. We had an epicly bad series of events to cause what happened last Saturday. I have to hope that heater will realize that the one on one matchups aren't going to give the results he wants. So if he can help that end and do more to pressure the QB, the defense turns from below average to respectable. For some reason neither side of the ball played with fire in their belly. There are many things that can help that end. Now on the miscues and turnover on O, anything that could happen badly, did happen. How often does that set up? It looked like it was a curse. I still have to believe they can fix a few things and get back on track. Its hard to point a finger at one thing and say that yes, this team isn't capable. If they can fix the mental errors we will be ok, if they can't and keep repeating the same crap, then yep, we are in trouble.

 

[Herd Fever]

I think we are secondary in the Bahamas Bowl. AAC gets first shot.

From what I could tell this year CUSA has the following bowl tie-ins:

– Boca Raton Bowl vs. American Athletic
– Gildan New Mexico Bowl vs. Mountain West
– Hawai’i Bowl vs. Mountain West
– R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl vs. Sun Belt
– Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl vs. Big Ten
– NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl vs. Mountain West

&
– Camping World Independence Bowl
Conditional if ACC or SEC can’t fill a spot.

I highly doubt CUSA will fill all 6 slot.

Right now the bowl teams I have from this conference is Marshall, MTSU, WKU, USM, LT.

I would say on the bubble will have UTSA and UTEP.

 

[The Real SamC]

I would put MU on that bubble. There are 5 more certain losses, that means 5 must wins. We must not stub our toe even once with NTU, FAU, UNCC, ODU or FIU. FAU or ODU can beat this team. We have to be perfect to get to 6-6.

 

[redsfan5590]

It just depends on how you view that game. People have been playing the "looking ahead" card, the "unprepared" card, and "few adjustments" card. All of this "play harder" rah rah, on one side and "blame to coach" on the other.

What I saw saturday was more simple. Our players were just out-skilled. Not out-played, not out-worked (although they did quit early in the 3rd), not under-coached, not running into some hyped up MACer playing "their Super Bowl" or Baby Bowden auditioning for the soon to be open USPAM job. What I saw was just the best team winning. And Akron is not a very good team.

How different is that game if we aren't starting a true freshmen at CB? I'm not saying that is an excuse, because we should have adjusted our defensive pressure. But any time Akron needed yards they went after Chris Jackson. On a side note, booing a true freshman off the field was a low point for our fan base.

 

[oldeherd]

How different is that game if we aren't starting a true freshmen at CB? I'm not saying that is an excuse, because we should have adjusted our defensive pressure. But any time Akron needed yards they went after Chris Jackson. On a side note, booing a true freshman off the field was a low point for our fan base.

redsfan5590, maybe the booing was directed more at the coaching staff for making little or no adjustments especially to help our corners after Akron exposed and exploited the deficiencies in our pass coverage over and over again!!!!

 

[HerditAllBefore]

fire leggs ! Coach can recruit but at least give him a second coordinator before axing the guy. Never been a legg guy ! However , Doc has gotten us back. He deserves a second chance . Everyone has said this is the year prior to the year. Let them learn hope that Heater and company can clean up a little .

 

[Herd Insider]

bgr28 is correct- 6-6. Read that blog that guy did. He nails it too. Chuck borrowed from it for his article on weak wins.

 

[redsfan5590]

redsfan5590, maybe the booing was directed more at the coaching staff for making little or no adjustments especially to help our corners after Akron exposed and exploited the deficiencies in our pass coverage over and over again!!!!

I did not hear one person screaming at Heater in that moment. I heard people screaming for number 3 to get off the field and were booing and screaming at him. Now, maybe you were in a different part of the stadium. At that point there were only a few thousand fans left it seemed

 

[jdf12550]

8-4, and play for conference championship.

 

[pdbailey]

It just depends on how you view that game. People have been playing the "looking ahead" card, the "unprepared" card, and "few adjustments" card. All of this "play harder" rah rah, on one side and "blame to coach" on the other.

What I saw saturday was more simple. Our players were just out-skilled. Not out-played, not out-worked (although they did quit early in the 3rd), not under-coached, not running into some hyped up MACer playing "their Super Bowl" or Baby Bowden auditioning for the soon to be open USPAM job. What I saw was just the best team winning. And Akron is not a very good team.

Actually, most of Akron's starters were P5 transfers that were in the 1st or 2nd year in the program. We weren't beaten by MAC recruits, and whether you want to believe it or not, Akron has a pretty good team and should challenge for the championship in the MAC next year. For the record, we have a lot of talent but a lot of that talent is inexperienced and we have some depth issues at CB where inexperienced guys are backing up inexperienced guys. By the 2nd half of the season we should be a very good team, but we just ran into a perfect storm against Akron where every bounce went their way, we committed 5 turnovers, 20+ penalties, gave up 4 defensive/ST TDs, and our youth came back to bite us as the young guys have not won anything yet at MU. I see a good chance at 8-4 or better as USM, MT, and WKU aren't as great as everyone are trying to make them out to be.